The Best Of Rob Iracane, February Through July

In honor of Walkoff Walk's first year anniversary, we thought we'd take the opportunity to pat ourselves on our backs and present to you some of our best work over the past twelve months. Because what's the point of blogging if you can't take a break and do a silly clip show from time to time? This one is for Ron Iracane, that guy I work with. It's his best work as judged by me: the handsome wild card of the group.

Corey Patterson Watch: Game Twenty: Rob's idea to recap Corey Patterson's entire season in detail is actually what brought a lot of people to this site for their first time. People love stats. And Dusty Baker jokes.

The Case For Expansion: Rob gets all opinionated and facty in one of the most debated and well written posts of the site's first year.

Yes I Am A Soxapologist: I think we've done a pretty good job at staying impartial this season. Rob even moreso than I.

Willie Mays Is Everbody's Awesome Grandpa: Rob recaps that much ballyhooed episode of Costas Now for those of us that don't have cable. I remember people talking about this after Rob wrote it, but not before. He's a tastemaker, you see.

That expansion article is quite a little time capsule. Choice lines include "baseball attendance at an all-time high and the country totally not in any sort of economic recession" (not sure if that was sarcasm or not at the time) and matt_t's comment about Charlotte being a good city due in part to the "investment types (Wachovia and BOA are headquartered there) with money to spend on merch and tickets."

YOU HAVE BEEN A WORTHY FOE ICARANE BUT DONT REST ON YOUR LAURELS BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT I COULD HAVE IN STORE FOR YOU JUST ASK THE NATS BAT BOY HE THOUGHT HE GOT ME GOOD BY PUTTING MY HELMET IN ESCOBARS CUBBY AND HIS IN MINE BUT I FIGURED IT OUT I CAN SMELL THOSE GUYS A MILE AWAY. ANYWAY HE GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO HIM ALL RIGHT WHO SAYS BERT BLYLEVEN IS THE MASTER OF THE HOT FOOT ? NOT THE NATS BAT BOY THATS WHO.